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Enkidu
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My future career 1
#27064992 - 11/30/20 04:33 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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I studied psychology for a while
About 4 courses away from my bachelors
Got a girl who lives 6 hours and 2 states away pregnant so i moved and got into construction
Been working construction the last year and a half
Framing houses, doing additions and some interior and exterior work, remodeling and the like. Learned a lot, come a long way since i first started.
Got a new job doing kitchen and bathroom remodeling with a company that looks pretty damn good. Backed up 9 months with work even in these times. Good reviews. 4 guys working for the owners. Got their own showroom and do the design work and have the guys do the labor work. Ill be learning from them.
So i wana continue this work and get good at taking care of a home and get to know my way around all that.
Be useful for my future as far as home upkeep and doing some work and remodeling of my own.
Maybe ill finish my degree in the next 5 years or so and have that as an option for work.
So do you think the future of construction and this line of work can help me build a career and live a decent life?
I have one child and another on the way.
Gonna have a house for them to grow up in and some land to live on and hopefully live off a bit.
What do you older guys who been through some shit think?
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Re: My future career [Re: Enkidu]
#27064999 - 11/30/20 04:42 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Fuck yeah dude. Construction is where it's at.
Psychology degree was what I wasted my time on too. What can you do with a Bachelors in Psych? Nothing. Waste of time.
Keep on it. We got fucked by the hype on college. Would most definitely go in anything construction related if I could go back and do it. At least there you can own your own business. As a nurse I'm essentially forced to work for the man forever.
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Enkidu
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Yeah i hear ya man.
Hook line and sinker for the whole "love what youre doing" thing
I do like how construction is very lucrative. Can take the skills anywhere and i keep hearing theres a shortage of honest men who are quality craftsman.
Keep hearing ita a dying breed.. So lots of opportunity..
Just wasnt sure how thinga might change as time goes on.
If a hurt economy might make work harder to find and shit like that
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Re: My future career [Re: Enkidu]
#27065036 - 11/30/20 05:02 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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What’s up man? Glad to hear things seem to be working out for you on the career front.
If you like construction and the money’s right, definitely keep it up. There’s always a future in it, and you’ll be working with all the different trades so you’ll know if pursuing something similar in the future would be a good next move for you, as well as make plenty of job connections. Business might get rough depending on the economy, but with automation and everything else going on very few industries are really completely secure for the future.
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metalfaith said: Psychology degree was what I wasted my time on too. What can you do with a Bachelors in Psych? Nothing. Waste of time.
Keep on it. We got fucked by the hype on college. Would most definitely go in anything construction related if I could go back and do it. At least there you can own your own business. As a nurse I'm essentially forced to work for the man forever.
Why do you think that? I have a Psych degree and have plenty of people I went to school with making 6 figures in marketing or management positions. Many more went on to therapy or research grad programs. A psych background got me into my grad school program and I’ll be an independent clinician in a medical rehab field making 6 figures soon if I want to (though I’m likely going with a more fun/less money position). As a nurse there are plenty of unique jobs to get into if you look for them, someone here was a nurse at a ketamine injection clinic I believe, a friend of mine travels around to all these awesome different camps for kids with disabilities as a pediatric nurse.
In the end Enkidu if you haven’t committed to a career yet, you really should base your work in what makes you happy. With kids the money is obviously high up on the priority list, but as long as their needs are covered having a healthy happy dad will be far better for them than a few bucks extra in a college fund or whatever.
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metalfaith said: Fuck yeah dude. Construction is where it's at.
Psychology degree was what I wasted my time on too. What can you do with a Bachelors in Psych? Nothing. Waste of time.
Truth, if you are aren't taking it to the doctorate level there is no point in a Psychology degree.
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Enkidu
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Re: My future career [Re: feevers]
#27065055 - 11/30/20 05:11 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yeah good advice man
I think right now it works because i want the skills anyway for when i have a place of my own.
Will be so worth it, i enjoy learning the shit that will help me take care of my house. And then i can buy something and fix it up and make a good home or some extra money if i sell
Finishing my degree sounds a bit daunting..
But if me and my ex arent together (we arent right now while shes pregnant for the second time, same shit as first pregnancy) then i might have an easier time finishing my degree.
Shes not letting me have my daughter anywhere near as much as i want
I just dont know where id take it and i was originally planning for grad school
Nice to hear from ya Feevers my friend, glad things are working out for you.
Has covid impacted your sector at all?
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Re: My future career [Re: feevers]
#27065065 - 11/30/20 05:17 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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I dont have experience in construction or physc but I would say there will always be money in construction/building, my very close family friend owns a kitchen/bathroom showroom business and they do very well, they are also interior architects.
My background is in mechanical engineering and there were some people on my course who were sponsored by their construction companies to study. In reality they just got credibility for signing documents and hated the course.
I hated my degree and after i got paid good money to also hate my work, got moved around the continent to work for big clients that everyone has heard of, was consistently pushed to sign contracts that wanted to pay me money and train me for management ect but after 2 years I was done. The bosses were thought i was completely crazy (they were offering me a "stable" career path ect ect but completely ignoring my requests at every turn)
My point is... do what you love, study if you love physc, enjoy studying it though. Going to school for the opportunity to potentially earn more is not (imo) the right attitude, you should study because its something you want to study and job prospects are not even secondary (i realise with the cost of studying this is not always the case for most people but its education first)
Im rambling. I just feel quite strongly about this because its been a huge part of my life that i regret/but also its how i got to where i am today.
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Enkidu
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No i appreciate the reply
I love psychology and the idea of helping people
I think im very good at it and would make a decent therapist or counselor and would love to work with young people
Would be awesome to have a cushy job as a professor
Guess im just lazy, some courses i do not fucking like.
Like foreign language
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Re: My future career [Re: Enkidu]
#27065110 - 11/30/20 05:43 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Go ahead OP
Whether something works out, no matter what line of work, depends on a lot of factors and is relative to what you put in. It sounds like there is promise there in your current standing.
Finishing the courses on the back side is great too, and definitely something to accomplish before too-too much time goes on if you can.
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Re: My future career [Re: ch0ppie]
#27065119 - 11/30/20 05:46 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yep i hear ya man
Yeah i think hard work and being an honest person who does quality shit goes a long fucking way in any area of life
Construction is one of the first jobs ive ever had that i dont get bored as shit as im always learning and growing and i like that it's an investment in myself and not necessarily into a company where if i lose my job im fucked
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Re: My future career [Re: Enkidu]
#27065142 - 11/30/20 06:05 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Enkidu said: Yeah good advice man
I think right now it works because i want the skills anyway for when i have a place of my own.
Will be so worth it, i enjoy learning the shit that will help me take care of my house. And then i can buy something and fix it up and make a good home or some extra money if i sell
Finishing my degree sounds a bit daunting..
But if me and my ex arent together (we arent right now while shes pregnant for the second time, same shit as first pregnancy) then i might have an easier time finishing my degree.
Shes not letting me have my daughter anywhere near as much as i want
I just dont know where id take it and i was originally planning for grad school
Nice to hear from ya Feevers my friend, glad things are working out for you.
Has covid impacted your sector at all?
I hear ya, but with 4 classes left if it was me I’d be doing everything I could just to get it over with, especially after investing all the time/effort into the first 3.5 years of it. Even a lot of jobs you’d never think of will tack on a little bit to your starting salary based on degree level.
You should see if there’s any way to finish up your courses online, there are so many grants that can make it practically free, even when you do your taxes I think you can get up to like $2k right back if you spent it on school. Online courses can be easy as hell if you scope out your professor on my ratemyprofessor first, senior year psych classes are awesome too, depending on the school you have some really interesting topics to choose from. You could see if your school does any accelerated semesters, I went to a state school they had “winter session” courses that were full 3 credit courses in literally 3 weeks. During the summer there were 6 and 8 week semesters offered, you might be able to bang 4 courses out in a couple months.
Hope things can work out for you seeing your daughter, that situation sounds real shitty.
I’ll be neck deep in COVID soon. Starting my clinical rotations in January, doing 3 months at a rehab hospital that’s solely working with COVID patients. Lots of critical illness myopathy/neuropathy from people in being in the ICU and incapacitated for so long, plus the obvious pulmonary/cardiac/stroke recovery that’s going hand in hand with COVID. I’ve been there observing and it’s wilder than I can describe. Not what I expected when I got into this field lol, but it’ll definitely be an experience I never forget.
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Re: My future career [Re: feevers]
#27065146 - 11/30/20 06:10 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Damn man thata crazy
You worried about being around it at all?
Yeah i need to at least get my bachelors
Honestly its the fucking foreign language rhat kills me man. I have putting it off my entire college career...
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Re: My future career [Re: Enkidu]
#27065151 - 11/30/20 06:17 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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If you've got the smarts and got the skills all you need is the drive to be your own boss.
It takes all three to do it.
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Re: My future career [Re: Enkidu]
#27065155 - 11/30/20 06:19 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Enkidu said: Damn man thata crazy
You worried about being around it at all?
Yeah i need to at least get my bachelors
Honestly its the fucking foreign language rhat kills me man. I have putting it off my entire college career...
Oh damn you saved foreign language for last? If you can take it online it’ll be cake, chrome has an option that translates your whole browser for you.
Not really worried, I’m 95% sure I had it back in March, threw up for the first time in a decade then had a fever, crazy body aches, and couldn’t climb stairs without almost passing out and needing to catch my breath... right after attending a conference and riding public transportation into the city right when things were spreading here. If not I start that one in April, the vaccine should be ready for healthcare workers who work with COVID patients by then.
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Re: My future career [Re: feevers]
#27065190 - 11/30/20 06:35 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Gotcha, be interesting working in all that
Yeah i think i got the business sense and people skills, honest and high standards for quality work, just need to learn the trades more
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Re: My future career [Re: feevers]
#27065206 - 11/30/20 06:46 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Feevers, you trying to tell me that your friend leveraged a psych degree for a management position making 6 figures? I have never heard of such a thing. All I know about positions like that is you leverage your work experience and competence and they just want any BS degree as a placeholder (as in any Bachelor degree will do).
What you doing rotations on? Nursing? I saw you post something about that before and forgot to ask.
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Become a contractor.
Hire who you need for a house construction and be able to do the work yourself if somebody doesn't show up.
You'll make waaaayyy more money by taking a profit off the entire job.
All you need to do is learn how to do the books and learn how to schedule people right.
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Re: My future career [Re: Patlal]
#27065252 - 11/30/20 07:10 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yeah i kinda wana go that direction once i know the work
Wana get everything down then from there i could oversee shit
Thought about trying to flip properties and things like that, even if its jist my own place and over a few years and maybe eventually buy a place and sub the work then flip it quicker
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Re: My future career [Re: Enkidu]
#27065282 - 11/30/20 07:25 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Enkidu said: Yeah i kinda wana go that direction once i know the work
Wana get everything down then from there i could oversee shit
Thought about trying to flip properties and things like that, even if its jist my own place and over a few years and maybe eventually buy a place and sub the work then flip it quicker
Flipping you own property is profitable.
You'll have to flip many properties to make a living out of it.
You'd have to be a contractor to make it profitable.
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Re: My future career [Re: Patlal]
#27065299 - 11/30/20 07:33 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yeah would be a long way away for that
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